Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 03 | Page 43

COUNTRY FOCUS: QATAR THE “SMART CITY” CONCEPT IS CENTRAL TO THE LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT OF QATAR AND WITH THE QATAR NATIONAL VISION 2030 OF ENABLING A SMART ECONOMY, SMART MOBILITY AND CLEANER ENVIRONMENT long-term development of Qatar and with the Qatar National Vision 2030 of enabling a smart economy, smart mobility and cleaner environment. “The Partnership between Lusail Real Estate Development Company and Ooredoo has been going from strength to strength since the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in 2012. Ooredoo was the ideal partner to help us design and facilitate the practical, efficient, digitalised and centralised Smart Meter System and we are delighted with the progress of the trial,” said Essa Kaldari. Ooredoo has a host of smart services as part of its growing next-generation portfolio. Other solutions currently being developed at Ooredoo’s OASIS Lab include Smart Home Automation, Out of Country Disaster Recovery, Cloud Security, Cloud Email Security Solutions, Smart Healthcare Solutions, Smart Cloud Marketplace, Internet of Things (IoT), Smart City Platform and M2M Solutions. WATCH THIS SPACE… ARAB FUTURE CITIES SUMMIT 2016 Qatar’s most established smart cities event, Arab Future Cities Summit 2016, in its fifth year now, will be held on 11th and 12th April 2016. The 2015 edition of the summit was inaugurated by Eng. Abdulla Al Subaie, Managing Director, Qatar Rail in the presence of Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad